The idea of having to write a blog about blogging makes even sweet little
Tomoyo facepalm.

If you've been following me on Twitter, or paying attention to what I'm
doing whatsoever, then you've probably noticed that the blogging situation has
got a bit...complicated. I said in an earlier blog that I planned to blog every
day, and while it may seem like I'm failing at that goal, I'm really not--
true, I don't blog EVERY day, but it's not uncommon for me to do 4-5 blogs per
week; they're just all on different websites. I update my GamingGoddess blog at
Destructoid.com regularly, and recently I've started doing some anime-related
blogging at Japanator.com. With this blog, that makes three distinct blogs that
are being regularly updated; I think it begs the question why I don't combine
them all into one huge, multi-disciplinary active blog, and call it a day.
While I want to, I don't think I can in good conscience.

I've gotten a lot of exposure from Destructoid and lately Japanator, and
moving my articles about game and anime related content, respectively, off of
those sites would seem like an attempt to parasitically steal some of their
audience. That's the last thing I ever want to do. While I'm not 100% in favor
of everything these sites do, the fact is they've allowed me to connect with
readers in a way I never could before, and I'm very grateful for that
opportunity. I could just mirror the content, but that just seems like a less
obvious way to do the same thing.

And yet, this is the blog with my name in the URL; I'd love to have
everything in one convenient archive. At first I rationalized it by saying that
all of my "personal" stuff would go here, but really, my feelings about games
like Final Fantasy or anime like Evangelion are no less personal to me than my
thoughts on Nine Inch Nails. And my narrated playthrough of Parasite Eve on
Destructoid is part extended-review, part how-to, part literary analysis, and
part personal narrative. I may not feel the same way about it as I do about the
comics I make, but I still think of it as a creative project-- something far
more personal than just reviewing a video game here and there. Ultimately,
that's something I want my name on.

So I've decided that the best compromise is this: my gaming and anime blogs
will always go up on their respective sites first, but after a week or two I
can add those entries to this archive if I want to. That way, I'm still
contributing to those communities by always giving them any relevant content
first, but further down the line, when someone looks through the archives here
they'll be able to find everything without having to navigate multiple
websites. Of course, in the event that I ever start doing any professional
writing on the web, that content would not be mirrored here because my employer
would be paying for that exclusivity-- but I put that in the "I'll worry about
that when/if it happens" category. I just wanted to state that for the
record.

Anyway, I hope you don't mind my taking the time to explain what's going on
in the land of Karen Bloggery. Meanwhile, I have a backlog of stuff now that
could definitely go here, so updates of older (but hopefully, still
entertaining) material will be intermixed with the new updates for a little
while. Some of them may even be REFORMATTED for your reading pleasure
(whoo!)